Editors’ Summary: Now live from Reveal Digital, a newly digitized archive brings to light the legacy of Rollerena, a roller-skating queer icon, disco fixture, and dedicated AIDS activist. Published as part of the HIV, AIDS, and the Arts collection, this digital resource chronicles the evolution of her public persona through a rich assemblage of article clippings, personal images, and typewriter text. The archive offers an unprecedented glimpse into the deliberate curation of her historical memory, uncovering her rarely-seen precursor, “Rollin Skeets,” and revealing how she painstakingly staged her own transformation. This open-access collection provides a rare look at the analog scrapbook practices used by LGBTQ+ figures to preserve and control their narratives.
